Whilst my PhD is focussing on Preventing Future Death reports (PFDs) illuminating issues around Right Care, Right Person (RCRP), I still maintain my spreadsheet about mental health police contact deaths more generally.  It’s an important, broader context for RCRP and it currently sits at 355 MH-PCDs, giving rise to 193 PFDs where 45 are still […]

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The Nottingham Inquiry reconvened yesterday to hear closing submissions about the evidence it took over the spring and at some point after it concludes, we’re all going to have to address a number if issues – if we haven’t already.  Chief amongst them is the deference the police show to mental health “experts” regarding issues […]

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If you follow the narratives about police contact deaths (PCDs), you won’t get very far before you see there is a lot of discussion about the need for accountability – whatever that might mean. This posts is a reflection on all this, because it obviously does mean different things to different people.  Before we get […]

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